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Cartesius / Janus Films ; Istituto Luce (Roma) ; producer, Renzo Rossellini ; screenplay and dialogue by Roberto Rossellini, Luciano Scaffa, Marcella Mariani ; director, Roberto Rossellini.
LIBRA DVD 001 004
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Eclipse (Criterion Collection (Firm)). Rossellini's history films Series 14,
- Eclipse ; ser. 14
- Eclipse (Criterion Collection (Firm))
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Descartes, René, 1596-1650.
- Descartes, René.
- Philosophers--Drama.
- Philosophers.
- Reasoning--Drama.
- Reasoning.
- Wisdom--Drama.
- Wisdom.
- Genre:
- Biographical films.
- Historical films.
- Feature films.
- Motion pictures, Italian.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (162 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2009]
- Language Note:
- Italian dialogue, English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD, full screen (1.33:1); Dolby Digital mono.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- Dolby
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- René Descartes was known as the "Father of modern philosophy." Depicts the seventeenth-century thinker's agonized struggle to assert the primacy of reason. An intimate, psychological study of obsession and existential crisis.
- Participant:
- Ugo Cardea, Anne Pouchie, Gabriele Banchero, Kenneth Belton, Vernon Dobtcheff, Renato Montalbano.
- Credits:
- Cinematography, Mario Montuori ; editor, Jolanda Benvenuti ; music, Mario Nascimbene.
- Notes:
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1974.
- Title from container.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Phi Beta Kappa Library Trust Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781604651164
- 1604651164
- 9781604651119
- 1604651113
- OCLC:
- 297239362
- Publisher Number:
- 715515034920 set
- ECL064 Criterion Collection
- ECL061 Criterion Collection (set)
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